Those who have been following me for a while will know that teaching and mentoring are a Big Deal™️ to me. Before I got into tech I was a teacher, and still consider myself a teacher at heart. Being a teacher and mentor was never separate in my eyes from being a good programmer and engineer; on the contrary, teaching was a tool that helped me become better at my craft at every stage of the journey. But in the last few years, and accelerating in the last few months, the landscape for te...